Policing, Men's Violence: An Introduction (From Women, Policing, and Male Violence: International Perspectives, P 1-12, 1989, Jalna Hanmer, Jill Radford, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-127406)

• NCJ Number: 127407
• Author(s): J Hanmer; J Radford; E A Stanko
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 12 pages
• Sale Source: Routledge
• Publication Type: Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

Police response to violence against women is explored. The treatment abused women receive is always mediated through experiences with men; those who abuse and those who make up the part of the State that has the mandate to intervene through the use of criminal law.

Abstract

Violence against women is a specific example of a more general failure in effective response to interpersonal crime by the police. Research demonstrates the ways in which women's lives are controlled by the threat or reality of men's violence. Violence and its threat are ugly and crude means of securing control or dominance and may be used by individual men to control or punish individual women who challenge or are seen to be challenging their authority. Strategies to confront men's violence in Western societies have actively promoted alternatives for women to escape violence, but many women have no option but to turn to the police following an attack. For this reason, there is continuing concern about the policing of men's violence towards women and the lack of perhaps more understanding female police in many forces.